25th Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

 
  Lot 310
 

310

Jacob, Rachael and Leah, The Flight into Canaan: A Fine Early 19th Century or Earlier Ivory...

Jacob, Rachael and Leah, The Flight into Canaan: A Fine Early 19th Century or Earlier Ivory Fan, the guards tipped with mother of pearl and with mother of pearl thumb guards. The monture is elegantly and ornately carved, the guards with a male figure in the tips, followed by a classical female, and objects to include a diamond, shell and classical urn. The gorge is carved with a central naked figure carrying a bow and arrow, possibly Cupid, possibly a hunter. To either side is a bird, with the outer sticks filled with meandering flowers and tendrils, some being in bud, some large and fully open and with large petals. The vellum leaf, mounted à l'anglaise, depicts a woodland setting, the town in the distance behind, Jacob, now a wealthy man, with his two wives and their cow, sheep and donkeys, carrying provisions, accompanied by a servant, starting their flight into Canaan, following a souring of relations between Jacob and Leban and his sons. Two onlookers are seated to the right. The verso is plain save for painted detail on the ribs. Guard length 28cm

Sold for £400
Estimated at £600 - £900


 

Seen from the verso, minor repair to the leaf. Leaf quite rubbed, especially to each side.

 


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Auction: Blackborne Collection - Part 2, 25th Jul, 2018

Blackborne Collection - Part 2

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